Folk customs in Jiangnan

1. February 12th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Baihua, so it is called "Flower Festival". It is Japanese Jiangnan people who have many unique customs. According to the records in Qing Jia Lu, people will devoutly cut and paste seven-color flowers in the courtyard on the Flower Festival, or tie red and green ribbons and insert small red flags to celebrate the flowers. It is said that the flower tree will be angry if the flower god doesn't enjoy the red on his birthday.

2. Therefore, on this day, people want to tie ribbons on flowers and trees, or hang up red notes. At one time, countless colorful ribbons fluttered in the branches, forming a unique scenery. No wonder Zhang Chunhua, a Qing Dynasty poet, lamented, "In spring, the flowers are dyed with green bushes, and the branches are cut and picked by the east wind. Steaming clouds and five colors fly to the sunny dock, and the painting pavilion opens to help enjoy the red. " In the Qing Dynasty, Cai Yun's poem: "Baihua's birthday is a good time, and it is not half spring in the flower dynasty.

3. The flowers are full of splendor, so please try your best to decorate the god of flowers. " It is the scene of the Flower Festival. What is recorded is the story of people giving flowers trees red flowers and celebrating the birthday of the flower god. Now it seems that the word "reward" may mean both appreciation and reward to the flower tree. On the day of outing, drinking and wearing flowers, Jiangnan people like to invite them out of the city for an outing. Talking and laughing, while competing for peach blossoms.

Extended information:

1. Temple Fair. In the old days of Jiangnan, there were almost flower temples everywhere. On the Flower Festival, there are many temple fairs near the Flower Temple. In old Shanghai, the Chenxiang Temple in the city was very lively on the Flower Festival, so Qin Rongguang of the Qing Dynasty wrote in Zhuzhi Ci of Shanghai County: "The Flower God of the 12th Flower Festival was the birthday of the 19th Guanyin Buddha. I have an appointment to go to Chenxiang Temple, and the peach blossom fan has a new apricot shirt. " ?

2. Flower magic lamp. As night falls, people in the south of the Yangtze River like to put up a "flower magic lamp". This lamp is usually made of semi-transparent oil paper "Tan Jian" which can be used as an umbrella cover, and it is mostly umbrella-shaped and hexagonal, so it is also called "cool umbrella lamp", which is decorated with figures, flowers and rare birds and animals.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Flower Festival (China Folk Activities)